Finder menus are just random letters

I've never seen this before, but lately (and intermittently) on start up, or restart, the menu clock will start flashing, then a number or two will disappear. When I go to any of the finder menus all I see are missing letters. For instance, the "shut down" word will now say " h ow " or "s u d n" or other various spellings. This is the same for all the Finder menus. However, if I launch a program when the computer is in this condition, the program menus look fine. I'm using a G4 Tower "Dual Boot" model running OS 10.4.11 and OS 9.2. By the way I've never seen this anomaly on the OS 9.2 side. Anyone have any ideas? – workin

Thank you BDAqua for your kind welcome! I've always been able to fix my computer by reading the posts and answers from others (there are a lot of smart people out there!), so this is a first for me. Thank you in advance for your time!
As you suggested, opened Font Book... Validation-OK, Duplicates-none, New fonts-none. At this point maybe a little more detail from me would help. This G4 was set-up/working fine since late 2003. At that time, because of the work I'm involved in, Suitcase Fusion (also scanned fonts-no problems) was installed (currently vers. 12.1.7, this was sometime ago) as I have over 800 typefonts installed. The problem (I think) may have its roots in a Mac software update from a year? more? ago. At that time I didn't notice that my Dashboard typefont wasn't displaying properly (now it's a white outline, with transparent center). Since I rarely use Dashboard I ignored it. About a month ago in an effort to finally fix it, I deleted the Dashboard preferences/app./related files and reinstalled. No fonts were deleted, but since then the finder menus have been acting up. Sorry this reply is so long. Thoughts? -workin

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